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18/04/2024 Apple CEO Tim Cook says it is considering a manufacturing facility in Indonesia ( Electronics )
18/04/2024 Google Maps to show alternate transit and walking directions along with driving routes ( General )
17/04/2024 Apple releases iOS 17.5 beta 2 giving EU iPhone users more unique capabilities ( E-Tailing )
17/04/2024 WhatsApp rolls out new chat filters to help you locate unread and group conversations ( General )
16/04/2024 Google Chat working on adding group audio and video call function within Gmail Spaces ( General )
15/04/2024 Tim Cook arrives in Vietnam ( Electronics )
15/04/2024 Vietravel Airlines reports first profits in 3 years ( General )
11/04/2024 Samsung adds more language availability within Galaxy AI ( Electronics )
11/04/2024 YouTube Music promises Podcasts will get better on the platform ( General )
09/04/2024 WhatsApp to roll out new photo library shortcut for faster sharing ( General )
09/04/2024 Google Messages will soon start to warn you when tapping on links sent by unknown senders ( General )
08/04/2024 Siri might end up King in the realm of digital assistants after iOS 18 AI makeover ( Electronics )
05/04/2024 Google’s “Find My Device” network reportedly launching in 3 days ( General )
04/04/2024 Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp users are reporting a “Major Disruption” worldwide ( General )

Retail Asia15/04/2024

Vietravel Airlines has reported a profit of VND10 billion (US$400,128) for the first three months of the year, achieving its first profitable quarter since its inception in 2021. As a subsidiary of the tour operator Vietravel, the airline announced first-quarter revenues exceeding VND491 billion, surpassing its initial target by 42%. The profits stemmed from increases […]

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Retail Asia17/11/2023

AirAsia airlines will open a new domestic route of Denpasar, Bali-Kupang, NTT beginning on December 16, 2023. The Bali-NTT route will serve three flights a week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. “AirAsia opens the [route] with a special price of Rp1.5 million for one trip,” said Corporate Communication Manager Indonesia of AirAsia, Ageng Wibowo on Friday, November 17, […]

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Retail Asia22/09/2023

Capital A, the entity behind the AirAsia Aviation Group of airlines, remains committed to a November 2023 launch of AirAsia Cambodia (Phnom Penh). It comes as Capital A steps up its involvement in the Cambodian market and takes a 60% stake in a local ground services company called ADE Cambodia. In late 2022, ch-aviation reported that Capital A had set up […]

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Retail Asia21/08/2023

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked relevant ministries to find solutions to Bamboo Airways’ issues on capital, transfer of shares to new investors, and its fleet expansion. The airline has recently faced many difficulties, especially in finance. In mid-July, it was rumored Bamboo Airways asked the government for bankruptcy protection, but the private airline […]

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Retail Asia16/08/2023

AirAsia Philippines is gearing up for the holiday season and expects a surge in air passenger traffic after the foreign traveler vaccine certificate requirement was lifted. The Department of Health Circular 2023-06 applies to all airports and seaports in the country and states that all arriving international travelers will be accepted regardless of their vaccination […]

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Retail Asia11/08/2023

Air New Zealand is looking for two airports to further support its efforts towards decarbonization and has opened an expression of interest as part of selecting a route to fly its commercial demonstrator aircraft from 2026. The move is part of the airline’s ‘Mission Next Gen Aircraft’ launched in December last year, where the carrier […]

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Retail Asia28/07/2023

Today Malaysia’s Capital A Berhad (Capital A) announced its operating statistics for the second quarter of its financial year 2023. The announcement details the performance of Capital A’s aviation, digital, logistics and aviation services segments from April 1st to June 30th, 2023 (2Q2023). With the operating segments so closely interconnected, a strong performance in Aviation […]

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Retail Asia25/07/2023

AirAsia Philippines has ended wearing face masks on all domestic flights following the government’s decision to lift the state of public health emergency under Presidential Proclamation 297, filed by the Department of Transportation. Meanwhile, wearing face masks for flights to international destinations remain subject to the existing health protocols in the destination country. AirAsia destinations […]

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Retail Asia24/07/2023

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Hotels in Ho Chi Minh City are suffering from low occupancy rates due to a sharp drop in international visitor arrivals and domestic tourists’ preference for traveling to beaches. In May, amid a wave of hotel closures and conversions into office buildings, the Norfolk Hotel in District 1 with over 100 rooms stopped operating. In […]

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Retail Asia17/07/2023

AirAsia Thailand (FD) celebrated its inaugural flight, Sunday, flying from Bangkok (Don Mueang) to Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka. Operating the direct flight four times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday) the low-cost airline uses an A320 on the route with 180 seats. FD140 de departs Bangkok Don Mueng Airport (DMK) and […]

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Retail Asia12/07/2023

CEO of Bamboo Airways Nguyen Minh Hai has resigned less than two months after assuming the position. Following his resignation announced by the carrier on Tuesday, deputy chairman Nguyen Ngoc Trong will be the airline’s acting CEO. Hai was named Bamboo Airways’ CEO in late May, replacing Nguyen Manh Quan. Hai, 51, has a bachelor’s […]

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Retail Asia26/06/2023

Property developer Him Lam, the new owner of Bamboo Airways, plans to build an aviation ecosystem centered around the latter while expanding its presence in Asia. Bamboo Airways began flying in 2019 and became the first private carrier to operate wide-body aircraft. It quickly expanded its fleet to nearly 30 by the end of 2021 […]

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Retail Asia22/06/2023

Oshima Hideki, the former chairman of Japan Airlines, has been appointed chairman of Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways for the 2023-2028 period. He is among seven new directors of the airline, according to decisions made at the company’s general meeting on Wednesday. Hideki has nearly 40 years of experience in the aviation industry. He was previously Deputy […]

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Retail Asia15/06/2023

Bamboo Airways posted an accumulated loss of VND3.2 trillion ($136 million) last year, higher than that of Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet. Although the company saw revenue tripling to VND11.73 trillion, costs still exceeded that figure due to difficulties in the Northeast Asia market and the Russia-Ukraine conflicts, which drove up fuel expenses, according to the […]

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Retail Asia08/05/2023

Vietnam Airlines’ HVN shares will see trading restrictions from May 12 for failure to file its results in time. The carrier has been more than 30 days late in submitting its audited consolidated financial statements for 2022, the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) said in a statement. At the end of March Vietnam Airlines […]

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Retail Asia04/05/2023

Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air reported profits again in the first quarter of this year, while Bamboo Airways neared the break-even point, thanks to the Tet travel peak. Analysts said increased international flights due to Vietnam’s Lunar New Year holiday festival (Tet) in late January were the cause of the uptick in the previously-ailing air […]

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Retail Asia06/04/2023

AirAsia X (AAX) continues to expand its China network with two weekly flights to Beijing restarting last week after almost a three-year pause. The flight from Kuala Lumpur lands at Beijing Daxing International Airport at 0105, while the return flight from Beijing arrives in Kuala Lumpur International Airport (Terminal 2) at 0830. AirAsia X Malaysia […]

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Retail Asia20/03/2023

Malaysian long-haul low-cost AirAsia X is returning to recovery, reporting improvements in revenues, profits, and costs after some very difficult years during the Covid crisis. The carrier expects to benefit this year from the relaunch of its most profitable routes and gradually grow the fleet again, it said on February 22. AirAsia X continues to recover […]

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Retail Asia02/03/2023

AirAsia parent company Capital A expects China’s reopening to international travelers in January to drive the recovery of its airlines this year. AirAsia’s four airlines — Malaysia-based AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, and affiliate Thai AirAsia — plan to rapidly ramp up capacity to China from less than 1 percent of 2019 levels in December, according to […]

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Retail Asia27/02/2023

Airlines and some experts have proposed hiking and eventually removing domestic airfare caps to support businesses in difficult times. Last year, no domestic airlines were profitable because of higher fuel costs, foreign exchange rates, and interest rates, while airfare caps have been kept unchanged for eight years. On Friday, participants at a conference on supporting […]

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